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The flying pig is my personal mascot. For me, the flying pig represents something impossible that has come into reality. A flying pig challenges me get with the program. It’s a reality check. It’s a sign that I need to up my game, that I need to dream bigger and do better. The thing that…

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Four years ago today, I learned that my treadmill had died. Or rather, that I had killed it. This is what I posted on Facebook about it. It’s official. I’ve killed the treadmill. It’s not only really dead, it’s really most sincerely dead. We took the cover off the treadmill today and ran it to…

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Most of the popular advice about emotional eating boils down to this: •Emotional eating is bad. Don’t do it. •Emotional eating is something you need to battle in order to lose weight. But what if that point of view is wrong? What if emotional eating isn’t the enemy to fight, but a path that holds…

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The new year has brought some new group cardio classes to the gym, and I decided to try a free sample class. One of the new classes claims to be a place where you can “get lost in the music and express your unique self.” Their mission is to “express joy and live life more…

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Up until now, I’ve not been the kind of person who makes New Year’s Resolutions. Making resolutions often sets us up for failure, which can do more harm than good. But it’s also true that the new year presents us with fresh energy, a sense of new beginning that’s palpable in the air. We are…

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Here’s an update on my Holiday Fitness Challenge. Need an update on what am I doing and why? Start here and then go here. So yeah, the Holiday Fitness Challenge. Heh, maybe it’s the name that is the problem… maybe if we called it something else… the Fitness Commitment? the Wellness Quest? the Great Expedition…

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Here’s an update for how I’m doing on the Holiday Fitness Challenge. If you missed the post where I described how I lost my mind and signed up for not one, but two Holiday Challenges, be sure to catch up. Healthy for the Holidays This is the challenge we are doing at work. We are…

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To put it kindly, I have been struggling with the motivation to work out. I can think of a million excuses, but all of them end up with me looking like this. Seriously, if you aren’t following The Oatmeal and all of this Blerchy goodness, you are missing out. I signed up for two…

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Just Do It. It’s so cliché. And also… sometimes it’s pretty solid advice. Running errands around the neighborhood, I keep seeing these signs for a local 5K. The first time I saw the sign, I thought, “I should look up that race.” And I promptly forgot the name of the race and the website. I…

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The first thing I’d like you to know is: my hamstrings are sore. But that’s good, right? All right, so here’s what you need to know to catch you up with where we are now. Here’s a short list of the major life changes I’ve made in the last three months- my divorce was finalized;…

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The flying pig is my personal mascot. For me, the flying pig represents something impossible that has come into reality. A flying pig challenges me get with the program. It’s a reality check. It’s a sign that I need to up my game, that I need to dream bigger and do better. The thing that…

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Four years ago today, I learned that my treadmill had died. Or rather, that I had killed it. This is what I posted on Facebook about it. It’s official. I’ve killed the treadmill. It’s not only really dead, it’s really most sincerely dead. We took the cover off the treadmill today and ran it to…